Machine Learning

In this sense, it is a normative concept: it means that a person's well-being is what that person reasonably desires. If a person is unreasonable, this fact may diminish, but it does not eliminate, the person's well-being. When the concept is applied to the lives of human beings, it is often used in a comparative way, for example: "A is better off than B," or "A's life is more complete than B's." This approach is used in utilitarian approaches to ethics, in the theory of hedonistic utilitarianism. In such approaches, the way to improve the world is to maximize the total amount of well-being, although some forms of utilitarianism, such as that of John Stuart Mill, require that the well-being of all sentient creatures, not just humans, should be maximized. In hedonistic utilitarianism, it is the total amount of well-being that matters. This concept is closely linked to the concepts of preference, desire, and pleasure in decision theory, and to the concept of utility in microeconomics. The concept of well-being